In January-July Electrostal (Donetsk region) produced 243.661 thousand tons of continuous cast billets, up by 23.12% YoY. According to the company report, 197.011 thousand tons were exported and the rest sold locally. In July Electrostal produced 41.887 thousand tons of billets, exporting 41.849 thousand tons. In 2016 the company increased billet output by 8.9% YoY,…
The State Service of Geology and Subsoil has ordered to suspend operation at 2 Evraz Sukhaya Balka mines – Yubileynaya and named after Frunze. In 1996 the company received 2 special licenses to mine for iron ore for 20 years. They expired in September 2016. The new licenses could be given when the investigation on…
The supervisory board of Khartsyzsk Pipe Works has terminated the term of office of the company CEO Denis Novikov, having appointed Kirill Avramenko, the deputy CEO of EMZ, instead. According to the company statement, the decision was taken on July 31. Novikov has served as the CEO from May 22, 2015 till July 31, 2017.…
Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine intends to switch its blast furnace No. 1M from natural gas to pulverized coal fuel. The furnace shop has started manufacture of slag and pig iron at the blast furnace No. 9. Blast furnaces have enough raw materials. BF9 was put into operation on August 1. DMK started blowing BFs1M…
Tulachermet has shut down its blast furnace No. 3 for scheduled repairs. The halt will not affect the planned output. In July the company had to produce 142 thousand tons of pig iron, and in August – 126 thousand tons. The BF3 was shut down on July 20, and the repairs are expected to last…
Energomashspetsstal has produced and shipped 2 low-pressure turbine rotors to the customer. The machinery has been produced for Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (India). The total weight of the batch is 177.81 tons. Delivery to Haridvar was carried out by railroad and sea transport. (Ukrainian metal)
The European Commission has started an antidumping investigation as to deliveries of Ukrainian and Egyptian ferrosilicon to the territory of the European Union. The investigation was started at the request of Euroalliages and would inspect ferrosilicon produced in Egypt and Ukraine and supplied to the EU from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017. The…
Evraz ZSMK has started producing V500V wire rod with the 10-40 mm diameter according to the British standard. This will allow Evraz to increase exports volume of wire rod and strengthen its position on the foreign market of construction rolled metal. The trial batch has been tested by CARES and confirmed its correspondence to BS…